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Community Projects with Purpose! Global Volunteers is a long-standing leader in ethical volunteer abroad opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. We’ll carefully match your skills and abilities to life-changing community projects with measurable outcomes. You can make a difference!

Volunteer Abroad to Help Children

You’re needed around the world to help children thrive!

When you volunteer abroad with Global Volunteers, you work alongside parents, teachers, caregivers, professionals and local leaders to improve the physical and cognitive development of our world’s future leaders – its youth. Projects are structured to engage you at a level and pace appropriate to your personal experience and energy. Together with your teammates, you build on the efforts of previous volunteers, extending the community’s capacity and long-term knowledge base. This is how you maximize your impact. As a volunteer abroad for just one or two weeks, you can change the arc of a child’s life. And you add meaning to your own life at the same time.

Volunteer Abroad To Change Lives

Supporting children before birth, through infancy and on to adulthood is an awesome commitment. Each of these volunteer abroad projects are sustained by successive teams of volunteers, year after year in partnership with community leaders worldwide. You provide essential services by sharing your energy and skills that often aren’t otherwise available. You work at the community level, where crops are planted, children are taught and protected, and health care is delivered. You dedicate your own professional expertise, life experience and long-held interests to an individual assignment that ripples through the entire community.

“We’ve known each other since last Saturday, and I’m amazed at the talent and achievement on this volunteer abroad team. We have a fighter pilot, a journalist, students, entrepreneurs, a biologist, an artist, and master teachers – many of whom have also mastered life’s most difficult task of parenting. I’ve been places, done some things; am perhaps a bit smug about it. But I asked my wife, ‘can you believe what this group has done?’ I gotta go home and get a life.”

Don CampbellVietnam Volunteer

“This is my first Global Volunteers program, but I am a veteran of a dozen volunteer abroad projects around the world. Without a doubt, this is the best team environment… Some different teams have conflict, some have outliers, and some types of teams fall apart, but our Global Volunteers team was almost perfect — the best.”

Volunteer Abroad With Our Inspired Community Partners!

To ensure that every volunteer abroad contributes to their greatest potential, we work in close partnership with local leaders. They have the vision, community support and “hands-on” capability to help children and families improve their lives. You are their “helping hands.” Our community partners will channel your expertise and direct your energy on important service projects that meet pressing needs. We serve a wide range of large and small local organizations such as: